An extra special night at CAJ as we present a six-piece band and a rare appearance by renowned singer, songwriter, journalist and broadcaster Mônica Vasconcelos.
São Paulo born, Mônica’s musical journey includes partnerships with, amongst others, UK rock legend Robert Wyatt and Brazilian master guitarist and composer Guinga. She can also be heard singing the duet ‘Just As You Are’ with Robert on his album Comicopera.
She has toured the UK with Guinga and has sung in London with Brazilian bossa nova icons João Donato and Marcos Valle. Leading her bands Nóis and Nóis 4, Mônica has played support gigs for Bryan Ferry, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim, Joyce, Gilberto Gil and Courtney Pine.
She was featured as a guest singer alongside major Brazilian stars such as Lenine, Zélia Duncaan, Ney Matogrosso and Joyce on Rio composer Alberto Rosenblit’s album De Bem Com a Vida. In the UK, she has performed at major venues such as Ronnie Scott’s jazz club, the Barbican Hall and the Jazz Cafe. She has also played a headline gig at Peter Gabriel’s Womad world music festival and performed at major UK jazz festivals such as Brecon Jazz, Chelthenham Jazz, Southport International Jazz Festival and The Sage International Jazz Festival, in Newcastle.
On April 2011, Mônica performed alongside her quartet Hih and guests at the prestigious Kings Place, in London. The concert was a celebration of Samba, the national Brazilian style. It featured original compositions and music by A.C. Jobim, Heitor Villa Lobos, Robert Wyatt and others, as well as poetry by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Mário de Andrade. The poems were specially translated for the event by Kings College professor David Treece.
In the early Summer of 2014, she released the London Bossa DVD, which features a music performance and a documentary. It brings together some of Mônica’s long standing collaborators and friends, and celebrates their 20 years of music-making in the London where they all met. She won Gold at the 2014 New York Festivals International Radio Programme Awards for the documentary The Secret History of Bossa Nova, which she presented on BBC Radio 4 in September 2013.
Mônica’s latest album, The São Paulo Tapes has been put together with the help of her friend Robert Wyatt. TSP Tapes is a selection of songs written by some of Brazil’s greatest song poets as a response to the military dictatorship that took over the country between 1964 and 1985.
As a journalist Mônica has produced and presented a number of award-winning documentaries on the BBC World Service around Brazilian music and social history and these can be readily accessed online.
with Ife Tolentino: guitar • Yaron Stavi: bass • Sam Watts: piano • Jeremy Shoham: sax • Rick Finlay: drums/percussion

Born in 1947, Chris Biscoe was drawn to jazz by hearing Fats Waller, Erroll Garner and Benny Goodman on the radio. Early listening to Lester Young and Stan Getz (Jazz Samba) and Charlie Parker led to him starting to learn alto sax in 1963. Chris is self-taught on sax and clarinet. Turning to tenor sax in 1965, Chris’s major influences were Sonny Rollins, Charlie Rouse and Dexter Gordon.

In 2015, Chris Biscoe and Allison Neale joined forces to bring to the fore the sense of collective improvisation on standard material so brilliantly demonstrated by Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan. Chris has brought his “Then and Now” band to Karamel on previous occasions.

On this evening, Chris will be playing music from the Billy Strayhdorn and Sonny Rollins Songbooks.

http://www.chrisbiscoe.co.uk

£10 on the door
Happy Hour 5-7pm
Vegan Kitchen 7-10pm
Music from 8pm
Come early and enjoy our Happy Hour – Buy One Get One Half Price on drinks offer 5-7pm.

Karamel London N22 is a Time Out award-winning restaurant/venue situated in the heart of Wood Green’s cultural quarter. It is open Mon-Sun – specialising in World Food, Craft Beers, & Fine Wines, and hosts Jazz every Thursday evening and presents singer/songwriters, alternative folk and poetry and emerging artists on Friday nights.

Still Waters is a group you don’t want to miss, led by imaginative Henry Lowther, this established group will be playing his originals and the finest of the 1960’s jazz scene. Joined by some of the most talented jazz performers on the UK scene, Pete Hurt, Barry Green, Dave Green and Stu Butterfield, Still Waters brings original composition and dynamic free improvisation.

£10 on the door
Happy Hour 5-7pm
Vegan Kitchen 7-10pm
Music from 8pm
Come early and enjoy our Happy Hour – Buy One Get One Half Price on drinks offer 5-7pm.

Karamel London N22 is a Time Out award-winning restaurant/venue situated in the heart of Wood Green’s cultural quarter. It is open Mon-Sun – specialising in World Food, Craft Beers, & Fine Wines, and hosts Jazz every Thursday evening and presents singer/songwriters, alternative folk and poetry and emerging artists on Friday nights.

We are delighted to see the return of French-born drummer Tristan Mailliot who studied at Dartington College of Music and The Royal Academy of Music. He has appeared with leading UK and international artists, including Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Bobby Shew, Scott Hamilton, Peter King, Stan Tracey, Dave Newton, Alan Barnes, Gerard Presencer and Jim Mullen.

£10 on the door
Happy Hour 5-7pm
Vegan Kitchen 7-10pm
Music from 8pm
Come early and enjoy our Happy Hour – Buy One Get One Half Price on drinks offer 5-7pm.

Karamel London N22 is a Time Out award-winning restaurant/venue situated in the heart of Wood Green’s cultural quarter. It is open Mon-Sun – specialising in World Food, Craft Beers, & Fine Wines, and hosts Jazz every Thursday evening and presents singer/songwriters, alternative folk and poetry and emerging artists on Friday nights.

Nim Quartet is excited to play at Hackney Empire for FREE !!!
Don’t miss this one, it will be a great night, in a great place with great people and of course MUSIC !!!

‘Nim Quartet ‘ present fusion jazz in a dynamic new light!”
-Rhythm Passport , UK

Click the link below for a sneak preview of sounds!
Nim Sadot – Nim Quartet [Full Album]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDoplkZatdE&t=468s

At THE EMPIRE BAR in the heart of Hackney Central, with a welcoming outdoor space, friendly bar staff and reasonable drink prices.

Easy transport links.

End of season jam will be an impromptu and improvised collective effort involving an indefinite number of musicians who’ve performed at Karamel this year, with an initial rhythm section of Pete Whittaker, Dave Whitford and Stu Butterfield.

A chance to see some of the the finest musicians play in groups you might never have the chance to see again!

A night of surprise and free flowing tunes is guaranteed. Expect the unexpected!

Jazz at Karamel will return in September!

£10 on the door
Happy Hour 5-7pm
Vegan Kitchen 7-10pm
Music from 8pm
Come early and enjoy our Happy Hour – Buy One Get One Half Price on drinks offer 5-7pm.

Karamel London N22 is a Time Out award-winning restaurant/venue situated in the heart of Wood Green’s cultural quarter. It is open Mon-Sun – specialising in World Food, Craft Beers, & Fine Wines, and hosts Jazz every Thursday evening and presents singer/songwriters, alternative folk and poetry and emerging artists on Friday nights.

Songs & Sonnets – George Shearing
After Shakespeare – Chris Lee
Mass In Blue – Will Todd

Barts Choir
Ivor Setterfield
Joanna Forbes-L’Estrange – Soprano
Luke Annesley – Alto Sax
Chris Lee – Piano
Joe Pettitt – Bass
Rod Youngs – Drums

Noted for its skilful and entertaining writing of a jazz form of the liturgy, the popular Mass in Blue was premiered in 2003 and described by Will Todd as a real watershed work in which he can truly express himself. In contrast the Choir features George Shearing’s delightful “collaboration” with Shakespeare, written because “we enjoyed working together so much!”

Finally, pianist, composer and songwriter, Chris Lee, has written a jazz instrumental suite inspired by the Shakespearean texts used in Shearing’s Songs & Sonnets. He is joined by Luke Annesley (alto sax) Joe Pettitt (bass) and Rod Youngs (drums).